A/HRC/33/57 8. States should ensure that indigenous peoples are given full access to publicly run health-care facilities, goods and services, as well as to facilities, goods and services relating to underlying determinants of health, such as safe and potable water and adequate food and sanitation. The introduction and implementation of comprehensive anti-discrimination laws and the collection and use of disaggregated data are vital for achieving this objective. 9. Laws and policies that permit or sanction violence against indigenous peoples, even if only implicitly, should be repealed by States, and steps should be taken to address violence perpetrated by State representatives (such as armed forces) and third parties. Violence in health-care settings, such as forced sterilization and female genital mutilation, as well as discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender indigenous persons, should be explicitly prohibited. 10. States should not endanger the environmental health of indigenous peoples, including through air pollution or water and soil contamination by State-owned facilities or other activities. States should take steps to protect indigenous peoples from environmental damage caused by third parties (such as private companies) by minimizing, through legislative and practical measures, the impact that extractive industries in particular have on the physical and mental health of indigenous peoples. 11. Indigenous peoples should be permitted to identify as distinct groups within States and States should take positive measures to ensure the collection of disaggregated data on indigenous peoples. States should facilitate access to health-care services through improved birth registration processes and by removing birth registration as a precondition for accessing health-care services. 12. States should take steps to support the preservation of indigenous cultures and protect indigenous peoples from the appropriation and commodification of their knowledge, their traditional medicines and other traditional practices by third parties. Indigenous peoples should be allowed to practice traditional medicine and enjoy its benefits but harmful practices that infringe on other rights, such as female genital mutilation, should be eradicated, in partnership with indigenous peoples. 13. States should provide sufficient resources to indigenous peoples to facilitate the creation and operation of their own health-care initiatives or, in the absence of indigenouscontrolled services, provide programmes and interventions directly to indigenous peoples, including through the implementation of special measures necessary for indigenous peoples to fully realize their health rights. 14. States should secure access to quality health-care services, including preventive care, for nomadic and remote indigenous peoples, indigenous peoples in conflict-affected areas and indigenous persons in detention, including through mobile clinics, telemedicine and information and communications technologies. 15. States should ensure that interpretation services are available to indigenous patients, to ensure adequate communication in health-care settings. Recognizing the role of languages in the healing process, States should also promote the use of indigenous languages in health-care settings. 16. States should take steps to train indigenous health-care workers and accredit indigenous health practitioners and integrate them into health-care systems. States should also improve health-care training curricula to train health-care workers to deliver culturally appropriate services, and create programmes and services to raise the awareness of practitioners regarding the treatment and management of indigenous persons. 17. Culturally appropriate health promotion tools and information should be devised and disseminated by indigenous peoples in partnership with States, to prevent both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Sufficient resources should be allocated 22